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PARIS - Canada's Aurelie Rivard has struck gold at the Paralympic Games. The 28-year-old from St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., won the women's S10 400-metre freestyle with a time of four minutes 29.20 sec...

Two-time Women's World Cup champion Alex Morgan announced she is pregnant with her second child and is retiring from professional soccer. Over the course of a 15-year career with the United States, Mo...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hunter Biden plans to change his not guilty plea in his federal tax case, his defense attorney said Thursday just as jury selection was set to begin. President Joe Biden's son is fa...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - The U.S. government announced on Thursday that it has secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners who have arrived in Guatemala, where they would apply for asylum p...

QUBEC - Quebec Premier Franois Legault is expected to shuffle his cabinet later today following the sudden departure of one of his most influential ministers. Pierre Fitzgibbon, the "superminister" wh...

VANCOUVER - First Majestic Silver Corp. has signed a deal to buy Gatos Silver Inc. in a transaction valued at US$970 million. Under the agreement, Gatos shareholders will receive 2.55 shares of First ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - The first batch of mpox vaccine arrived in Congo's capital on Thursday, the country's authorities said, three weeks after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks i...

PARIS (AP) - President Emmanuel Macron named EU former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as France's new prime minister on Thursday after more than 50 days of caretaker government. The appointment of t...

Noah Vucsics got into trouble for jumping over garbage cans in the halls of Calgary's James Fowler High School when he was in Grade 12. A happy offshoot of that clash with authority was the suggestion...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... What's next for Singh and his broken political pact with Trudeau? NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh may hold the key to...